Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi-2nd February, at 6:30 pm
Thursday 2nd February, at 6:30 pm.
Conference Room.Simultaneous translation into English.
Conference: "Two Sanskrit jackals in medieval Spain: the influence of
the Indian fable in Spanish literature;At first it may seem unlikely to
affirm that the first example of prose in Spanish had its origins in
ancient India. However, when we trace back the origin of the fables that
are the starting point of Spanish literature we find there the
unmistakable flavor of so many Sanskrit tales used throughout time to
entertain and educate. In this conference we will present the links
between Calila e Dimna, the first example of Spanish prose, with two
classical works from Sanskrit literature: Pañcatantra and Hitopadesha.
Wendy J. Phillips-Rodríguez obtained her BA (Hons) in Spanish at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her MLitt in Sanskrit
Studies at the University of Edinburgh and her PhD in Sanskrit at the
University of Cambridge. Her PhD dissertation was awarded the DK Award
to the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis on Sanskrit by the International
Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS) at the 14th World Sanskrit
Conference (Kyoto, Japan).
Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philological
Research and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and
Literature of the UNAM. Her main areas of interest are the Sanskrit
epics, textual criticism and the transmission of texts.
Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi
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